[ SECRET POST #6257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6257 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Unexpected Star - Michael McIntyre's Big Show]



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Comments

[ariakas]

but the superhero genre is about beings with abilities or powers defeating villains. It is satisfying for the heroes to beat villains, and it doesn't have to be related to fascism. Space robots are bad! Murderous villains are bad!

Sometimes things are about things other than the things that are a literal description of the plot lmao

And man, as far as "supremacy through violence" and "special people inherently superior to normal people" go, these are about the most fascist themes out there, trumped only by "group of those inherently superior special people defend the normal people of their homeland from murderous undifferentiated hordes of subhumans." That's, like, straight off the wolves/sheep/sheepdogs bumper sticker of the jeep with confederate flags on it tier. Agreed that superhero shows "don't have to be" related to fascism, there is stuff that isn't this - but when the themes are this - which describes much of the large cinema releases - that is exactly what it is, and the genre is absolutely rife with it.

(The militarism side of the claim seems to have gone without question but in case it didn't, like, the MCU quite literally works directly with the US military on film development.)

It doesn't mean the people who enjoy these films are fascists nor are the people who made them (most likely), or that I'm saying they're bad and people shouldn't watch them - they're just consuming/reproducing the narratives of their culture, childhood, and surroundings. It just means the genre is a fertile ground to start questioning and subverting these things, just as modern Westerns have done with their own genre.

And lbr there's a ton of unfortunate themes/implications in Hallmark Channel-style romances, too, as well as rom-coms, and the comment thread below about it is bouncing off the realization that this, too, might be a genre with flaws people can no longer unsee (gender roles, consent, entitlement to sex, etc.) and requires questioning/reformulation to revive it.